Dear Ace: What would we be if we were Charlottesburg? What’s the difference between a ’ville and a ’burg, anyway?—Anton Burgess-Deville To begin with, you’d be reading these words in the C-Burg Weekly, not to be confused with that other paper, The Harpoon. Maybe that would be the extent of the difference. Then again, Ace […]
Dear Ace: What would we be if we were Charlottesburg? What’s the difference between a ’ville and a ’burg, anyway?—Anton Burgess-Deville To begin with, you’d be reading these words in the C-Burg Weekly, not to be confused with that other paper, The Harpoon. Maybe that would be the extent of the difference. Then again, Ace […]
READ MORE Click here to read a previous cover story about Demonte Burgess and George Huguely. On June 10, three defendants charged in connection with the city’s first homicides since October 2008 were slated to appear in Charlottesville General District Court. While court dates for 22-year-old George Huguely and 19-year-old Demonte Burgess were moved to […]
Virginia Senator Robert Hurt’s decisive victory in last week’s GOP Congressional primary set the Fifth District’s own political Rube Goldberg machine in motion.
The 52 percent discount was not in effect last week when Patricia Kluge’s furnishings went on sale. Though she dropped the price of Albemarle House, the 45-room English country-style home from which 933 lots of stuff were culled, to $48 million from her original $100 million, by midday Wednesday it seemed similar bargains would be […]
In Walks With Men, Ann Beattie’s new novella, the writer returns to a time when her star was the well-polished centerpiece of the literary firmament—namely, the 1980s, when you couldn’t open the New Yorker without seeing one of her stories, and “Chilly Scenes of Winter became a kind of bible among 20somethings.” So said last […]
During UVA President John Casteen’s final Board of Visitors (BOV) meeting before he retires in August
The 52 percent discount was not in effect this week when Patricia Kluge’s furnishings went on sale.
Since January, Albemarle County Supervisor Ken Boyd has organized meetings with area business leaders to craft an economic “action plan.” The plan seeks to foster a more business-friendly culture in Albemarle that would attract more companies, expand the county’s commercial tax base and increase tax revenues without facing the potentially volatile issue of raising tax […]
Dear Ace: Who cleans the Free Speech Wall, and how often? I’m trying to determine when it would be likeliest that I would find a wide, empty swath of slate on which to hide an encoded message in plain sight.—Chalkboard-Collaborator-in-Charlottesville The 54′ strip of Buckingham slate that stands at the threshold of the Charlottesville Pavilion […]